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Martin 8h ago

Dr. Kristopher Wells 17h ago

A reminder that Canada is proud to have one of the most comprehensive bans on “conversion therapy” in the world.

This is because it is fraudulent, harmful, and never works.

We choose evidence over ideology and protection over harm. 🇨🇦

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-conversion-therapy-colorado-92b34295f9ef497a4a1cbeb56c9b74c6

Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on LGBTQ+ ‘conversion therapy’

The Supreme Court has ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that banned the discredited practice. The high court majority sided Tuesday with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment. The justices agreed the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard few laws pass. President Donald Trump’s Republican administration supported the counselor. Colorado said the measure simply bars a practice of using therapy to try to “convert” LGBTQ+ people to heterosexuality, a practice that’s been scientifically discredited and linked to serious harm.

AP News

Martin 8h ago

Randahl Fink 10h ago

Everything in the Trump administration is a source for manipulation. Here is the travel advisories map from Marco Rubio's Department of State:

🔵 Traveling to Kazakhstan Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan: No problem.

🟡 Traveling to completely safe EU countries like Denmark, Sweden or Germany: Exercise increased caution.

Source: https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/

Martin 8h ago

Alex Kretzschmar 15h ago

Brutal.

When Microsoft acquired GitHub.

Martin 8h ago

tante 17h ago

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.

Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.

It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.

Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.

The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.

Martin 6d ago

Dorgaldir🇧🇪6d ago

With world autism day around the corner, it's a good time to post this.

#autism
#actuallyAutistic
#InfinitySymbol

Martin Mar 24

nixCraft 🐧Mar 24

Microsoft spent 4 years stuffing Windows 11 with unwanted ads, forced Copilot integrations, stealing data to train its shity AI and other bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it. Reasons for a Change of Heart:
1 Increased Linux gaming
2 Apple's entry into the low end PC market with 0 forced AI
3 The "Microslop" social media shaming campaign
4 Increased costs due to AI leading to almost 0 ROI since there is no consumer demand https://www.sambent.com/microsofts-plan-to-fix-windows-11-is-gaslighting/

Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating

Microsoft spent four years stuffing Windows 11 with ads, forced Copilot integrations, and bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it.

Sam Bent

Martin Mar 20

Denkt dan niemand aan onze wappies? We gaan ze hun chemtrails toch niet ontnemen? https://www.bright.nl/nieuws/2068802/ai-maakte-simpele-aanpassingen-aan-vliegroutes-dit-is-wat-er-gebeurde.html